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Rethinking Approaches to Chronic Crises in Africa: American and African Perspectives

SAIS John Hopkins School for Advanced International Affairs

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and Search for Common Ground (SFCG) in association with Conflict Prevention and Resolution Forum (CPRF), held a conference on “Rethinking Approaches to Chronic Crises in Africa: American and African Perspectives,” at the John Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies’ Kenney Auditorium, on March 5, 2020. The conference was organized around two panels featuring leading African scholars and American policy makers, implementers, and development actors.

Rethinking Approaches to Chronic Crises in Africa: American and African Perspectives

SAIS John Hopkins School for Advanced International Affairs

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and Search for Common Ground (SFCG) in association with Conflict Prevention and Resolution Forum (CPRF), held a conference on “Rethinking Approaches to Chronic Crises in Africa: American and African Perspectives,” at the John Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies’ Kenney Auditorium, on March 5, 2020. The conference was organized around two panels featuring leading African scholars and American policy makers, implementers, and development actors. The conference featured opening remarks by Cyril Obi, Program Director of the African Peacebuilding Network and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa programs at the Social Science Research Council …

National and Regional Ownership: Investments & Partnerships in African-led Initiatives in Peace, Security and Development

CPPF Director, Dr. Tatiana Carayannis moderated a high-level side event at the UN Secretariat with the deputy foreign minister of Kenya, Ambassador Macharia Kamau. The discussion, on “National and Regional Ownership: Investments & Partnerships in African-Led Initiatives in Peace, Security and Development,” included a panel with the UN ambassadors from Egypt, Brazil, Thailand, India, and the African Union.

Natural Resources, Sustainable Development, and Peace in Africa

On June 30, 2020, the Wilson Center Africa Program, under the banner of the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP), and the Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) hosted a virtual event on “Natural Resources, Sustainable Development, and Peace in Africa.” Dr. Monde Muyangwa, Director, Wilson Center Africa Program, Washington, D.C., gave the welcome remarks; while Dr. Cyril Obi, Program Director, African Peacebuilding Network, Social Science Research Council, New York City, set the stage for and moderated the discussion. Dr. Dauda Garuba, Technical Adviser, Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Abuja, Nigeria; Dr. Resty Naiga, Lecturer and Researcher, Department of Development Studies, …

The African Peacebuilding Network Grantee Research Methods Training and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Bi-Annual Fellows Joint Virtual Workshop

The Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) programs had their first virtually held joint fellows workshop from August 31st, 2020 to September 3rd, 2020. Before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic that has affected all parts of the world, the joint workshop was originally scheduled to be held in Kampala, Uganda in collaboration with Makerere University. 18 APN Individual Research fellows and 35 Next Gen Proposal Development, Dissertation Research, and Dissertation Completion fellows participated in the workshop, whose activities included lectures, working group sessions, and one-on-one mentoring sessions …

Chad and the Region (New York)

Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

On 27 January, CPPF organized an expert brainstorming on Chad and the Region. The meeting assessed recent developments in the region and explored opportunities for enhancing cross-border coordination of UN conflict prevention activities in Chad’s border areas.

2020 SSRC Fellow Seminar with Aihwa Ong

Near-Humans, Cloned Monkeys, & CRISPR Babies: Productive Uncertainty in China's Quest for Biosecurity September 24, 2020 The Social Science Research Council invites applications to participate in an exclusive seminar on “Near-Humans, Cloned Monkeys, & CRISPR Babies: Productive Uncertainty in China's Quest for Biosecurity” led by the Council’s 2020 SSRC Fellow, Professor Aihwa Ong. The seminar will take place via Zoom on Thursday, September 24, 2020, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. eastern time. The SSRC Fellow initiative invites distinguished scholars to the Council to strengthen research and programming in the areas in which we currently work or aspire to work. Professor …

A Discussion on Race and Racism

On September 30, 2020, the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) held a discussion on race and racism moderated by SSRC president Alondra Nelson and Joy Connolly, president of ACLS, featuring Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, and director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project; and Bianca Williams, associate professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. https://youtu.be/Yk3-BsNro6s This event is presented as part of the Social …

The Persistence of Racial Inequality

The seemingly intractable problem of racial inequality in the United States—despite periods of tremendous progress—is evident in numerous measures of disparity (poverty rates, educational achievement, household net worth, homicide and imprisonment rates, and much more). The question is why racial inequality persists. On October 14, 2020, Alondra Nelson, president of the Social Science Research Council; Joshua Cohen, academic faculty, Apple University; Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University; and Glenn C. Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown University, considered this question and discussed social policy remedies to promote racial equality and the …

REIMAGINING SCHOOLS

The Social Science Research Council and SAGE Publishing are pleased to present the first of a series of conversations—REIMAGINING SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS—a public forum focused on the work of cultivating equitable, anti-racist social institutions. The first event in the series, REIMAGINING SCHOOLS, will feature several prominent experts of inequality in higher education. Featuring: Prudence L. Carter E.H. and Mary E. Pardee Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Education University of California, Berkeley United States Pawan Dhingra Professor of American Studies and Faculty Equity and Inclusion Officer Amherst College United States Nasima Hassan Academic and author United Kingdom Moderated by …

Electoral Anxieties: November 3rd and Its Aftermaths

Virtual Event Virtual Event

The stresses and strains on US democracy, building over decades, have reached an apex with the upcoming presidential election in ways that are unprecedented and daunting. Real fears of voter suppression, unfounded suspicions of voter fraud, and the effects of disinformation hover over November 3, 2020. Genuine uncertainty characterizes what may follow. Will the results be accepted? Will a transition be orderly if the incumbent loses? In recent years, the SSRC Anxieties of Democracy program has been preoccupied with the long-term fracturing of the democratic status quo, and what can be done to both secure and deepen democracy in ways that serve …

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